Ministers are drafting legislation that will require online pornography sites
to demand users prove they are over 18

Children will be blocked from online pornography sites which will demand users to prove they are adults, under new legislation.

Ministers want sites to ask for credit card details and other personal information to prove they are over 18.

The new legislation which is being drafted is aimed at stopping the estimated 20,000 children aged 16 and under who are accessing pornographic material online every month, according to Atvod, the Authority for Television on Demand.

Of these, around 44,000 are believed to be primary school age pupils.

Children as young as two have also been caught accessing explicit content online, according to research by uSwitch.com